{"id":"F2008L00585","name":"Social Security (Administration) (Declared relevant Northern Territory areas – Various (No. 3)) Determination 2008","slug":"f2008l00585","collection":"legislative_instrument","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"repealed","isInForce":false,"actNumber":null,"makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":326228,"registerId":"commonwealth-F2008L00585-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-08","status":"Repealed","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Social Security (Administration) (Declared relevant Northern Territory areas – Various (No. 3)) Determination 2008","content":"![](image.001.png)\n\nSocial Security (Administration) (Declared\n\nrelevant Northern Territory areas — Various (No. 3)) Determination 2008\n\nSocial Security (Administration) Act 1999\n\nI, JENNY MACKLIN, Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, acting under subsection 123TE (1) of the Social Security (Administration) Act 1999 (the Act), and on behalf of the Minister for Education and the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations, determine that each of those places listed in the Schedule is a declared relevant Northern Territory area for the purposes of Part 3B of the Act.\n\nThis Determination commences on 25 February 2008.\n\nThis Determination expires on 16 February 2009.\n\nDated 19 February 2008\n\nJ Macklin\n\nMinister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs\n\n  \nSchedule - declared relevant Northern Territory areas\n\nBELYUEN\n\nPANDAYAL\n\nWAGAIT RESERVE also known as WHITE EAGLE or IRON STONE\n\nWALANGURRMINY also known as FINNISS RIVER\n\nAdelaide River Town Camps:\n\nAMANGAL\n\nGULNGARRING also known as WARAI\n\nDarwin Town Camps:\n\nBAGOT COMMUNITY\n\nKNUCKEY LAGOONS also known as KNUCKEYS LAGOON\n\nKULALUK\n\nMINMARAMA PARK TOWN CAMP\n\nPALMERSTON TOWN CAMP\n\nRAILWAY DAM TOWN CAMP also known as ONE MILE DAM","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"kimi_summary":{"_metrics":{"model":"kimi-k2.5","source":"moonshot-batch","completionTokens":2410},"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":1,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The instrument exercises the specific power under section 123TE of the Act to declare geographic areas for income management purposes. It operates strictly within the original legislative intent of allowing ministerial designation of specific Northern Territory locations and does not expand beyond this geographic declaration function."},"complexity_factors":["Single operative provision declaring geographic areas with no conditional logic","No defined terms or interpretation section","Straightforward schedule listing 11 place names with alternative names in parentheses","No cross-references except to the empowering provision (section 123TE)","No exceptions, triggers, or operative sub-clauses"],"plain_english_summary":"This instrument declared specific Aboriginal communities and town camps in the Northern Territory as subject to income management in 2008, triggering Part 3B of the Social Security (Administration) Act so a portion of Centrelink payments was restricted to essentials via BasicsCard.  \n\nIt affected social security recipients living in those places during Feb 2008–Feb 2009 as part of the Commonwealth’s NT Emergency Response; the declaration was temporary."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/f2008l00585","history":"/api/acts/f2008l00585/history","analysis":"/api/acts/f2008l00585/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/f2008l00585/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/f2008l00585/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/f2008l00585/documents"}}